Amid a shift in the global political and security paradigm and a return to Great Power competition, the need to more completely understand the defence landscape and its influencing factors is of paramount importance.

This demands depth, context, and cross-domain insight, precisely where Global Defence Technology positions itself. As part of the GlobalData portfolio, the magazine is able to draw on one of the world’s most comprehensive business intelligence ecosystems, delivering informed, forward-looking content for today’s defence professionals.

The bi-monthly digital offering benefits from direct access to GlobalData’s defence intelligence research platform, providing a source of industry-leading datasets, forecasts, and geopolitical insight that takes coverage beyond the surface level and into the strategic. Editorial quality and integrity matters, and we strike to ensure that every article reflects that standard.

Within each issue of Global Defence Technology is content curated for defence decision makers, from military leadership, procurement officials, engineers, policymakers, and industry stakeholders. Whether analysing market trends in armoured vehicle procurement, developments in multi-domain operations, or assessing naval modernisation strategies, our reporting is underpinned by the cross-sector intelligence that GlobalData uniquely provides.

What are the benefits to this approach?

This deliberate step back from the micro-level to exploring factors in the macro enables the reporters writing content for Global Defence Technology to contextualise developments within broader global trends, be it industrial capacity, geopolitical risk, supply chain resilience, or myriad other factors.

Our magazine sits as but one part of the wider GlobalData media ecosystem, with other titles spanning technology developments in areas such as AI, mining, transport, and other areas, offering an interlinked view of industries shaping our world. Within this web, Global Defence Technology serves a distinct purpose: understanding macro-factors shaping military thinking and procurement and providing actionable intelligence to aid decision-makers.

Consider how much the geopolitical certainty of the world has changed in recent years. Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and the immense levels of materiel support provided to Kyiv by Nato member states; China’s determination to supplant the United States as the sole arbiter of power in the Asia-Pacific region; the risk of a destabilised Middle East; and the threats posed on the inexorable militarisation of space and ever-prevalent cyber-security challenges.

The result of the geopolitical shift has seen defence spending increase across the board, whether it be to replenish stocks donated to allies, re-balance procurement based on new lessons being learned in real time or shore up defences in preparation for future conflict.

Against all this uncertainty, our role is to anticipate trends, forecast changes, and inform readers. This could be through interviews with defence leaders, subject-matter experts, and industry leaders, or telling a different type of story through rich multimedia content to provide a reading experience for the modern age.